The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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